Monday, December 17, 2007
Steriods Irony?
Three thoughts for you...
1) I don't know if ironic is the right word...but this is quite amazing...check out this New York Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/01/sports/01MCNA.html
This article, written in 2000 was written by the very same Brian McNamee who was accused of injecting Roger Clemens and others with steroids while the strength coach of the New York Yankees.
The article's title says "Don't Be So Quick to Judge All That Power" and the most ridiculous comment coming from this man has to be this one: "The suggestion that steroids are the answer to the increased strength, recovery from injury and the improved performances of today's players is just wrong. The advances in training techniques have come a long way and are continuing to undergo research and development."
Wow...so unless something about the Mitchell Report is very, very wrong or this man is very, very phony...
2) Let's discuss what Jason Stark pointed out here: http://proxy.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=3157202
This really, really is a ridiculous double standard. I heard from one of my Red Sox (and Patrioits) friends that the Yankees World Series of 1996-2000 should be erased off the record books because of the Mitchell Report. I informed him that of all the players of the Yankees named, none of them were doing it during those years according to the report except maybe a few fringe players from the 2000 team...
Then I turned the table and said...OK, so what about the Patriots accomplishments with Rodney Harrison?
He said "What do you mean?"
He didn't even know...
The media seems to pick on baseball to a ridiculous degree on this issue when players like Harrison and Merriman of the Chargers get free passes...
3) How prophetic did Theo Epstein's conversation in the Mitchell report turn out to be about Gagne...?
4) This was presented as a definitive list of steroids users because one guy who worked for the Yankees and one who worked for the Mets got caught doing illegal activities and ratted people out. People say "Look! Sammy Sosa is clean because his name is not in the report!" Um....but they didn't catch anyone in Chicago...or Boston for that matter...which brings up the point that maybe Senator Mitchell wasn't the right man for the job...regardless of how "honorable" he supposedly is, he still has a job with the Red Sox...
5) Hall of Fame? If the hitter and pitcher both cheated, who has the advantage? There's people in the hall with Vaseline balls, spitballs, drug users, etc. McGwire doesn't pass Rob Neyer's test of "would he have made the Hall without PED's"? But who knows when he used them and how much they helped him out? If someone didn't fail a test (a la Palmeiro), I don't know how you can exclude them...
Thoughts???
1) I don't know if ironic is the right word...but this is quite amazing...check out this New York Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/01/sports/01MCNA.html
This article, written in 2000 was written by the very same Brian McNamee who was accused of injecting Roger Clemens and others with steroids while the strength coach of the New York Yankees.
The article's title says "Don't Be So Quick to Judge All That Power" and the most ridiculous comment coming from this man has to be this one: "The suggestion that steroids are the answer to the increased strength, recovery from injury and the improved performances of today's players is just wrong. The advances in training techniques have come a long way and are continuing to undergo research and development."
Wow...so unless something about the Mitchell Report is very, very wrong or this man is very, very phony...
2) Let's discuss what Jason Stark pointed out here: http://proxy.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=3157202
This really, really is a ridiculous double standard. I heard from one of my Red Sox (and Patrioits) friends that the Yankees World Series of 1996-2000 should be erased off the record books because of the Mitchell Report. I informed him that of all the players of the Yankees named, none of them were doing it during those years according to the report except maybe a few fringe players from the 2000 team...
Then I turned the table and said...OK, so what about the Patriots accomplishments with Rodney Harrison?
He said "What do you mean?"
He didn't even know...
The media seems to pick on baseball to a ridiculous degree on this issue when players like Harrison and Merriman of the Chargers get free passes...
3) How prophetic did Theo Epstein's conversation in the Mitchell report turn out to be about Gagne...?
4) This was presented as a definitive list of steroids users because one guy who worked for the Yankees and one who worked for the Mets got caught doing illegal activities and ratted people out. People say "Look! Sammy Sosa is clean because his name is not in the report!" Um....but they didn't catch anyone in Chicago...or Boston for that matter...which brings up the point that maybe Senator Mitchell wasn't the right man for the job...regardless of how "honorable" he supposedly is, he still has a job with the Red Sox...
5) Hall of Fame? If the hitter and pitcher both cheated, who has the advantage? There's people in the hall with Vaseline balls, spitballs, drug users, etc. McGwire doesn't pass Rob Neyer's test of "would he have made the Hall without PED's"? But who knows when he used them and how much they helped him out? If someone didn't fail a test (a la Palmeiro), I don't know how you can exclude them...
Thoughts???
3 Comments:
If you're caught cheating - No HOF.
All the numbers should be wiped out and unrecognized by MLB, as the case is with Pete Rose. Heck, these idiots injecting themselves with 'roids or HGH have more of an impact on the game than Pete Rose did as a manager who was gambling -- if Bonds gets in for what he did on the field, Pete Rose should be reinstated and get in for what he did as a player.
Roger Clemens was using during his two title runs with the Yanks.
The double standard in baseball is there because there are fewer players, thus a cheater has a greater impact on the game.
With Rodney Harrison, he gets a couple more tackles on the year maybe? What about Merriman and his monster year with his stupid steroids? All of last season should be wiped out for him, given that those steroids probably took effect for most of the season.
I guess the biggest reason for the so-called double standard is that it is easier to quantify the cheating in baseball, and some of these guys are breaking records set by some of the best players to ever play the game of baseball -- like Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth.
In football, you don't hear as much about guys on steroids breaking great records -- unless LaDanian Tomlinson and Peyton Manning are juicing it up.
Steriods? Are you sure you didn't mean steroids?
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